Health Foundation announces $1.6 million in grant funding to CNY groups

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Health Foundation for Central and Western New York awarded $1.6 million in grant funding to several organizations in Central New York “for the last half of 2014.”

 

The Central New York grants are part of a total of more than $3.6 million in funding that the organization awarded.

 

The Health Foundation, which is headquartered in Buffalo and operates an office in Syracuse, announced the grant awards in a news release issued Tuesday.

 

The Foundation’s grant awards focus on areas that include improving the health of young children affected by poverty and vulnerable older adults, and supporting the systems that serve them.

 

It awarded grants to three Syracuse organizations as part of its maternal and child health initiative to expand best practices.

 

Upstate Medical University will use an award of up to $100,000 toward its Centering Pregnancy for refugee/migrant women at the Midwifery Center.

 

The Salvation Army received a $100,000 award to evaluate and expand implementation of its strengthening families program.

 

Reach CNY will use a grant of up to $100,000 to implement SBIRT screening to women of childbearing age.

 

The Health Foundation also awarded the Child Care Solutions of Syracuse and Child Development Council of CNY of Ithaca grants of $20,000 to improve children’s oral health. The nonprofits will become a new “Cavity Free Kids” hub and will train and support early child-care programs to help poverty-stricken children develop lifelong healthy dental habits and better oral health.

 

St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center of Syracuse and Northern Oswego County Health Services, Inc. of Pulaski will use grants of up to $100,000 as part of the CHOMPERS! portable dental-care expansion.

 

The health-care providers will provide dental treatment to children under the age of five at locations “where they already congregate,” the Health Foundation said.

 

As part of its effort to help “vulnerable older adults,” the Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties, Inc. in Utica will use a $50,000 grant for a concept-mapping process to gain input from older adults about what would help them remain longer in their neighborhood. 

 

 

 

Community Health awards

 

The Health Foundation also awarded grants to organizations that work to “effectively plan for, and address, health needs of the most vulnerable and those in poverty,” the organization said.

 

In addition, the Health Foundation awarded the Central New York Community Foundation a grant of $142,000 for the development, implementation, and management of a Syracuse Green and Health Homes Fund for the city of Syracuse.

 

Family Medicine Medical Service Group, LLC of Syracuse will use a grant of nearly $15,000 to explore different models of delivering primary care for the center.

 

The Foundation awarded the Center for Family Life and Recovery, Inc. a grant of $10,000 to hire a consultant to guide implementation of the organization’s strategic plan.

 

In addition, Northern Oswego County Health Services, Inc. of Pulaski will use a grant of $70,000 to have a consultant coordinate the collective design system reform incentive payment (or DSRIP) activities among the region’s participating federally qualified health centers.

 

The organization also awarded the Center for Family Life and Recovery, Inc. in Utica a grant of $40,000 to support implementation of an updated strategic plan that aligns with the agency’s needs for managed-care readiness.

 

The Gifford Foundation of Syracuse will use a $15,000 grant to support a workshop focused on training Central New York nonprofits on the importance, art, and skills of storytelling.

 

The Foundation also awarded WRVO Public Media of Oswego a grant of more than $54,000 to sponsor the “Take Care Radio Series,” a half-hour health series that WRVO developed and airs on Sundays.